Bridgehouse Lodge

You can get a good night’s sleep, but don’t expect much more. The restaurant has an excellent chef, but the service is not very much forthcoming. That said, there are other great places in town for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Exterior sign to reception led to a darkish bar where unattended reception was "hidden" around a corner. Once staff member free from bar duties check-in all OK. Building's conversion from earlier purpose (?) resulted in very compact odd-shaped accommodation with nook under upstairs landing! However, very clean with all needed facilities and a great range of food and drink options at in-house restaurant alongside river. Good undercover parking for house guests.

We enjoyed our stay first impressions of the rooms was that they are ready for an upgrade but they were clean bed was comfy. toilet when flushed would go for ages . Staff were lovely overall it suited our purpose and we had a good sleep

Have stayed here a few times before and as always the people are lovely and my stay peaceful and enjoyable.

No bell etc at reception so I had to get one of the bartenders for help - he was lovely, but the fact that I had to go find someone was an odd start. The room was pretty sad. Weird layout, no aircon (only a couple of fans which didn't do much), wine fridge with no proper shelves which didn't seal properly, and mattress was super hard. Paint chipped on walls everywhere and just didn't feel entirely clean. A lot of road noise, windows were a struggle to close properly to keep some of it out. Bathroom had a moldy ceiling, the shower door didn't close all the way, and the shower head was so grotty that I wasn't comfortable using the shower in the end. Decent amount of free parking available, but it's first-in-first-served with only a couple of spots reserved for guests (which were always full while I was there), so I imagine on weekends etc it gets difficult. I managed to find a space each day for my short stay (mid-week) but it was generally the last space left. There are no do-not-disturb signs and no deadbolts on the doors, so I was woken from my attempted sleep-in by housekeeping trying to walk in. My bag was against the door which stopped them coming in, but they proceeded to call out "housekeeping" and try to slam the door open, twice, even as I called out to them. All in all pretty disappointing, wouldn't stay again unless it was a very cheap price and I needed to save money

I have stayed here many times nice comfortable, clean little rooms. Great location if you have an event to attend in Matakana.

We did enjoy the young lady who checked us in and later helped us find a table in the full, noisy dining room. Food was good. Did not like all the stairs and tiny room. Unable to bring our suitcases up the narrow stairs so left them in the car and just took up what we needed for the night in a shopping bag. With the angle of the roof over the bed hitting our heads was an issue. Shower did not drain well and quickly threatened to overflow the shower basin.

It was nice enough, only stayed one night so didn't get the priceyist of rooms and it was a bit small, but it was nice for a short stay

Bed was comfortable, generally room was clean. Conveniently located to shops,. Faults : Towel was not changed was dirty, Slight mark on duvet. No soap dish by sink. Shower was either hot or very hot. Reception was behind the bar, no bell or buzzer found so had to go find them.